Boxcar Sunday, Let's see your boxcars.

@Don McErlean posted:

@D500- Well you could restore that fine example of a boxcar...as Captain Picard would say..."Make it so!"

Best wishes

Don

If I had fewer projects on the RR To-Do list, I might say "challenge accepted".  I'd really have to leave the graphics, though.   

Nothing really special about these traditional sized boxcars made by Lionel in 1992 but the New York Central Pacemaker  color scheme certainly makes for a nice looking unit train.  This one is being pulled by Lionel’s early TMCC version of the New York Central’s S1 electric locomotive.

@D500 posted:

At a train show in Mobile last year or so - I was "inspecting" this fine piece when the vendor noticed me. "Fifty cents", she said. Well, two nice-shape PW Lionel trucks/couplers, which I do use in rolling stock projects when they fit in, for 50 cents? Sure. Of course, the thing is so strangely appealing that I have yet to take the trucks off of it.

I wonder if this was what Jean-Luc Picard went into after he retired from Star Fleet?

This is a wonderful example of "Folk Art." You made a nice find!

- oops, it isn't sunday, but...

after reading another post about using a dull-coat to knock down the "toy look" of some of out lionel plastic trains - I was studying the way the ol' plastic shine and decal ageing was making this boxcar emblem and lettering look kinda "source-y" (shrug, how would you describe it?) anyhow, I gave the boxcar a gentle bath and then shot with a very light coat of krylon 1311 matte finish. I think it looks better

@woodsyT posted:

- oops, it isn't Sunday, but...

After reading another post about using a dull-coat to knock down the "toy look" of some of out Lionel plastic trains - I was studying the way the ol' plastic shine and decal ageing was making this boxcar emblem and letting look kind of "source-y" (shrug, how would you describe it?) anyhow, I gave the boxcar a gentle bath and then shot with a very light coat of Krylon 1311 matte finish. I think it looks better.

I remember buying that boxcar when it came out. It was my first car with sprung trucks.

@woodsyT posted:

- oops, it isn't sunday, but...

after reading another post about using a dull-coat to knock down the "toy look" of some of out lionel plastic trains - I was studying the way the ol' plastic shine and decal ageing was making this boxcar emblem and lettering look kinda "source-y" (shrug, how would you describe it?) anyhow, I gave the boxcar a gentle bath and then shot with a very light coat of krylon 1311 matte finish. I think it looks better

While I realize this is not a boxcar but a reefer, I like what you did with it.  I have it and it is my last remaining car from that period.  I keep it because it was my wife's favorite beer while attending Wayne State in Detroit.  I will try the same thing with it to keep it looking good.

I remember visiting York with my granddad in the early 80s. On one of those trips, he picked up several dozen of the early 9800 numbered boxcars and reefers. I was thrilled, and his huge train table finally looked appropriately filled. I loved 'em, the way they sounded rolling with those sprung trucks and angled wheels seemed so much smoother & nicer and you could get more than 20, maybe 30 of them running behind an F3 or 736 magne-berk.   I have inherited these ol' boxcars & reefers, made about 50 years ago. They all have some minor staining or faded-color/plastic patina that developed from 30+ years of storage in newsprint

Hi, boxcar fans. Here is a MTH Creamsicle refrigerated boxcar. This car was uncatalogued # 20-94102 from 2006.

@Dave Ripp. posted:

..Here is a MTH Creamsicle refrigerated boxcar....

There are so many cars that toy trains produced over the years that fall into the "corny"  category - for me - just my personal opinion - (and we know what that's worth, 🤪🤔... nuthin😅) But I find there are still many of them that will cross a boundary from corny that are super cool and desirable. I've just spent 20 minutes searching the interwebz for that creamsicle car... I can't find it for sale anywhere. 🧐 I want one! 👍

@woodsyT posted:

There are so many cars that toy trains produced over the years that fall into the "corny"  category - for me - just my personal opinion - (and we know what that's worth, 🤪🤔... nuthin😅) But I find there are still many of them that will cross a boundary from corny that are super cool and desirable. I've just spent 20 minutes searching the interwebz for that creamsicle car... I can't find it for sale anywhere. 🧐 I want one! 👍

I believe I have an extra but I'm working a double shift today so I can't check.

• Creamsicle

Product Item Number:

Catalog:

• ZZ Uncataloged Items

Product Line:

• Premier

Some new cars for this week. Just finished them Friday…

A few Weaver repaints…

An MTH Premier car…

Tom

@Dave Ripp. posted:

I believe I have an extra..

I would never ask you to part with the pride & joy of your collection😉 one will turn up somewhere👍

Here’s one I picked up out of a box of give away track. 9204 Northern Pacific made in 1970-71. Greenbergs lists six variations, but mine has standard O trucks.

The railroad at nightfall.  NW boxcar built by Weaver and weathered by me.   I took this pic in natural light.

It’s Boxcar Sunday!

Here are a pair of Unique Art Jewel T Circus cars; one lion and one elephant.

Photos and videos show New York, Trumbull & Boston boxcar 777, Connecticut Railroad boxcar 06611, and Boston & Maine 0-8-0 steam locomotive 617 on my 12'-by-8' layout. The engine was renumbered and the two cars were painted and custom lettered by forum member @Krieglok.

MELGAR

@Dave Ripp. - WOW! I have seen a lot of fantasy paint schemes in the toy train world but that "Creamsicle" takes the cake!! What a neat car.  Im with @woodsyT- Gotta get one!

@Krieglok- more beautiful work Tom and they look great on @MELGAR's beautiful layout.

@pennsyfan - really love those Unique Line circus cars Bob

@trumpettrain- beautiful photography Patrick, realistic for sure but also dramatic.

@Brad J I agree Brad, lots of variations, here is mine in Tuscan.

Best wishes everyone, hope your week goes well.

Don

Beautiful box cars fellows, and today being Super Bowl 58 Sunday, this is truly a great topic, Have a fun Sunday everyone…

Railking - this is a TCA 50th Anniversary car. Something a little different about it from any other RK car I’ve ever seen. Any astute observers care to opine?

Hi, boxcar fans. Here is a MTH Creamsicle refrigerated boxcar. This car was catalogued # 20-94077 from 2004.

A MTH repaint by me…

PW Lionel Union Pacific moving some freight enjoy the day

Here are two Weaver 40' PS-1 boxcars that I modified with Kadee couplers and weathered...

Here is one that is a bit unusual.  It is a "fantasy" scheme I am sure, posing as a PRR boxcar celebrating the famous York train show in Pennsylvania but it was beautifully executed.  It is Kline from the period when Kline took over the Marx cars and reproduced them in new schemes.  It mounts the Marx 3/16" scale trucks with (metal) fork type automatic couplers . Its worth looking at more closely to remember what a great job Kline was doing at the time.

I would draw your attention to the wonderful detail that Kline was able to achieve with the Marx dies .  Look at the rivet detail, not just on the car sides but on both sides of the roof stiffening supports.  The rivets are each separated and visible with no overlaps or missed placements.  Kline's lettering is sharp and crisp with no blurring of the lines.  A really top notch job.

Again here on the logo end, you see the lettering is sharp and crisp and the cast detail is deep and very well executed.  I would also note that Kline did a much better job of handling the ends of the door runners than did Marx on the originals who simply had a piece of plastic melted into a "head" to secure the runner end, here the head is covered and neatly obscured.  Great job!

Well since I have very little reference material on Kline production I cannot state when this was made however they (Kline) certainly did a great job on it.

Best Wishes

Don

Canadian Pacific.

Lionel GM Generator car supplying power and light for bridge repairs.

Railking - this is the second car of the TCA 50th anniversary pair. Please note that, unlike the previously posted PL&E 64642004, this car does not have a differently colored roof walk and upper door guide.

Good morning boxcar fans. For this week a MTH refrigerated Popsicle boxcar. Product # 20-94080 from 2004.

@Dave Ripp. posted:

Good morning boxcar fans. For this week a MTH refrigerated Popsicle boxcar. Product # 20-94080 from 2004.

Looks great Dave! Must be warm there,  too cold.to think about Popsicles here!

My boxcars for this Sunday, February 25, 2024 are Connecticut Railroad #06611, New York Trumbull & Boston #777, and New York Central #161523 – all MTH products. The first two were expertly custom painted and lettered for me by forum member @Krieglok. The NYC car represents a wood-sided car built in 1919. The video shows New York Central Alco RS-3 #8223 pulling the boxcars with two New York Central cabooses (#19654 and #19877) at the tail end.

MELGAR

FRH

@Krieglok posted:

Some new cars for this week. Just finished them Friday…

A few Weaver repaints…

An MTH Premier car…

Tom

Beautiful work as always Tom thanks for sharing

Here’s Today’s. This is a old Atlas O kit that I built last winter. Have a great week

The B&O had 14,000+ of their M-26 boxcars starting in 1926, and these 1923 ARA designed cars pretty much were a duplicate of Pennsy’s X-29.  The number of M-26s dwarfs the much more popular B&O M-53 Wagontops that had only 4,376 cars made.  Since I only have one M-26 and four M-53s (plus three C-16), I am always on the look-out for more AtlasO M-26s with the correct paint scheme for the lates 1940s.  Unfortunately, there are not many out there.

Some weathered cars. Some are painted by me, some are commercial paint jobs. All weathering by me…

Here is my contribution this week. Three of these are All Nation and the wagon top is a Lobaugh kit.

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K-line linde with aluminum tank on flex-I-track.Brad

Here's an "old" Atlas 40' boxcar that I modified with Weaver die-cast trucks and weathered.  I eventually turned it into a 3-rail scale "transition" car by adding a Kadee scale coupler to one end while keeping the claw coupler on the other end, as seen in the last photo.

@Brother_Love posted:

Here is my contribution this week. Three of these are All Nation and the wagon top is a Lobaugh kit.

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I’m still working on my All Nations cars only have a few more to rebuild now. Those cars look good

Well today I have what I might call a "stand in" for a car I still can't find.  I have been trying to assemble a train of "I Love XX" boxcars for all the states we lived in over my career (7) and have found all but Maryland, which I discovered is very rare in this series and I have not seen one for sale (actually I saw one but it was listed as starting at $200 - too rich for me).  So I found at auction a "stand in" for that "I Love Md" boxcar which is the Maryland boxcar from the 1776 series.  Not perfect but its close. This was produced by Lionel (MPC) as uncatalogued in 1974 and then in the catalogue for 1975-76.

Here is the full side view

The Map side of the car.  Yes that map is correct, the Chesapeake Bay just about cuts Md in half. We lived about 30 minutes south of Annapolis and I worked at the Naval Air Test Center at Patuxent River and we "owned" the airspace over the Chesapeake for flight testing.

Here is the state flag end, Md state flag was a fairly elaborate design reflecting it colonial heritage.

Best Wishes

Don